Originally Posted by
Icelanta
The pilot IS NOT RESPONSIBLE AT ALL in case of False Selfe Employment according to EU legislation.
It is ALWAYS the EMPLOYER who is guilty of employing an employee under false self-employment pretention.
Hence, in the Netherlands, the EMPLOYER, NOT the employee is responsible to pay not only all taxes, social security to the State, but also ALL normally received bonusses, holiday payments, sick payments etc to the pilot.
It is NOT the Pilots who are in trouble for they are victims, it is RYANAIR who is deemed guilty.
That's partly not true. While the employer is responsible for the correct payment of certain things like social security, every person is responsible for the correct application of the tax forms.
If you file as a contractor (so basically as a business) you pay vastly different taxes and have other perks and duties than when you apply as a "normal" employed person.
So when the court decides you are in fact not a contractor, and you filed your taxes that way, you must now file the correct tax forms probably resulting in having to pay back taxes and possibly a fine for filing too late or even for filing incorrectly.
That will not bring you in trouble with the law, but it might cost a lot of money, and owing money to the Dutch tax/state can cause trouble.